Monthly Archives: August 2014

Lillian Weber makes a dress from scratch every single day so that a child in need will have something beautiful to wear. Throughout the last few years, Weber has made more than 840 dresses for Little Dresses for Africa, a… Read more

Back in December 1993, then-Sergeant Joseph Barca of Yonkers answered a call from a panicked father whose 2-month-old baby girl, Shammah Hammideh, had stopped breathing, according to the Journal News. Barca arrived on the scene and was able to revive… Read more

A truck driver quickly became a hero last week after a fiery crash on a highway in Mississippi. David Fredericksen got out of his truck with a fire extinguisher and ran to the scene, prompting other drivers to do the… Read more

Every doctor has patients we will remember forever for the experiences they bring: the first baby we deliver, the first heart murmur we detect, the first surgery we perform on our own. Every doctor also has patients we will remember… Read more

When Dave Tomkins and his family had to move his grandfather to a nursing home, they cleaned out his house and found hundreds of old 35mm slides. Tomkins gave them to his grandfather in hopes that he could learn more… Read more

“My parents taught me there is no such thing as an innocent bystander,” the recent Northern Highlands graduate said, explaining why he decided to form Keep Mean Off the Team, a movement to stop bullying in schools. “I never was… Read more

To the general public, the legend of Grandma Betty began around the time of her cancer diagnosis, when her 18-year-old great-grandson, Zach Belden, decided to document the remainder of her life. Despite her advanced age, and the cancer, Betty grew… Read more

During a morning commute, a man had accidentally slipped and trapped his leg between the platform and the train. Before emergency services could arrive, hundreds of commuters join as one and actually managed to push the train, tilting it to… Read more

A young German student was walking through a street downtown and noticed a homeless man asking for money from the pedestrians. Unfortunately his technique was not very successful, so the student asked to borrow his bucket.